Whats Android file system ??

Question

What is Android's file system?

Answer 1

By default, it uses YAFFS - Yet Another Flash File System.

Answer 2

Depends on what hardware/platform you use.

Since Android uses the Linux-kernel at this level, it is more or less possible to use whatever filesystem the Linux-kernel supports.

But since most phones use some kind of nand flash, it is safe to assume that they use YAFFS.

But please note that if some vendor wants to sell a Android netbook (with a harddrive), they could use ext3 or something like that.

Answer 3

Android supports all filesystems supported by the linux kernel.

The SD card is formatted as ext3, for example.

Peter

Answer 4

It depends on what filesystem, for example /system and /data are yaffs2 while /sdcard is vfat. This is the output of mount:

rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock0 /system yaffs2 ro 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock1 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock2 /cache yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block//vold/179:0 /sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

and with respect to other filesystems supported, this is the list

nodev   sysfs
nodev   rootfs
nodev   bdev
nodev   proc
nodev   cgroup
nodev   binfmt_misc
nodev   sockfs
nodev   pipefs
nodev   anon_inodefs
nodev   tmpfs
nodev   inotifyfs
nodev   devpts
nodev   ramfs
         vfat
         msdos
nodev   nfsd
nodev   smbfs
         yaffs
         yaffs2
nodev   rpc_pipefs